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Geert Hofstede | Defined Corporate Culture

I've been interested in Hofstede's work since B-school, back in the early second millennia, and at one time considered publishing using his country characteristics as predictors for economic and social welfare outcomes. Nowadays, I use the results of his analyses frequently in small R programming demonstrations.

The man who put corporate culture on the map—almost literally—Geert Hofstede (born 1928) defined culture along five different dimensions. Each of these he measured for a large number of countries, and then made cross-country comparisons. In the age of globalisation, these have been used extensively by managers trying to understand the differences between workforces in different environments.